forwarders (IPv6)

Graham Clinch g.clinch at lancaster.ac.uk
Tue Sep 13 21:04:01 UTC 2016


> I added below line to my named.conf to include IPv6 addresses to the
> forwarders list. However I am getting this error *“Sep 13 10:33:06
> servername named[24778]: [ID 873579 daemon.error] /etc/named.conf:158:
> expected IP address near '2001:1890:1C04:3000:0CB7:4432'”*

That's because it's not a valid representation of an IPv6 address (it 
has only 6 hextets where you would expect to see 8, or a double-colon to 
mark compressed zeros):

2001:db8:a4:ea5c:0:0:53:a1 = 2001:db8:a4:ea5c::53:a1

Graham


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